Decatur Daily Democrat, Volume 28, Number 226, Decatur, Adams County, 24 September 1930 — Page 6

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HORNSBY HAS CONFERENCE WITH WRIGLEY New’ ( ul) Manager to fake Over Reigns Thursday, Report Chicago, Sept. 24.—{U.PJ- Rogers Hornsby, ready to take over Joe K McCarthy's job as manager of the Chicago Cubs, conferred with Wililiam Wrigley. Jr., owner of the team, and" William Veeck, president. today regarding terms, with • a possibility that he would take active charge tomorrow. McCarthy's contract runs until January 1. 1931. but there were indications that Hornsby's elevation to leadership was not as sudden r.s events that preceded announcement of the change. It an agreement is reached, it is expected that Hornsby will become acting man ag‘ r tomorrow, leaving McCarthy j®. free to negotiate lor another position. Oornsby received the news of his W appointment with the calm of one who has been awaiting a certainty and within 12 hours was discussing his policies and announcing that be would be opposed to trading Hack Wilson, the hard hitting center fielder, who leads the major leagues in home runs. The Rajah, however, did not comment on speculation whether h • would return to his old post at second base while directing the Cubs. If he did, he would be the only player manager in the big leagues. Hornsby has expressed confidence that 1931 would find him a-oactive and tit as he was in 1929. but observers doubted that he would be in the lineup. Hornsby returned to Chicago with his teammates last night, asBB ter a disasterous eastern trip, for a final four-game stand against the Cincinnati Reds. McCarthy did not return with the team but was reported en route from his home in Buffalo. N. Y. It was expected that the signing of Hornsby as manager would be delayed until after McCarthy confers with owner Wrigley and President Veeck. Following the conference with McCarthy, owner Wrigley plans to rail in Hornsby and offer him a two-year contract as manager. Present .plans call for McCarthy to continue in charge of the team through the final four games and in the expected city series with the White Sox, although it is possible that he will ask to be released immediately. Hornsby paid tribute to McCarthy as a great leader and denied that h - had ever had trouble with the manager. "McCarthy built up a gieat team, but was the victim of bad breaks this season," he said. The big Texan admitted that, as manager, he might be expected to make some changes in the ball club but denied that he already Lad made plans for a drastic housecleaning. He depreciated reports that Hack Wilson, Gabby Hartnett, I'.iki Cuyler and Charley Grimm viewed his nomination as manager with hostility and said he had not clashed with his teammates during his two years with the Cubs. “Just because a player is a close friend and admirer of McCarthy does not mean that h“ will be hostile to me," Hornsby said. "One doesn't have to be a bosom pal of all the men on the club, whether he is a player or manager. I don't expect to have trouble w-ilh any of the players and think they will give me full cooperation. "The reports that 1 have made plans to trade various players are ■ ridiculous. You can't talk of strengthening a ball club and of trading Wilson, Cuyler or Hartnett

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in the same conversation. Cuyler is, one of the greatest outfielders In baseball. As for Hack Wilson, there isn't another player like him and his power and color are priceless to the team in my estimation. I "Naturally, If I become managr I .r. I will make any trades possible I to strengthen the team, but you can't strengthen a club by getting II id of your star players." e o JONES WINS IN :! FIRST MATCH e ' 1 Merion Cricket Club, Ardmore, e Pa. Sept. 24—(UP) —Bobby Jones I. defeated C. Ross Somerville, CanI, adian champion. 5 and 4. today in a t , first round match in the National Amateur golf tournament. I The match ended on the 14th i Green Somerville was able to win ' only one hole—the 12th. where he I shot four to Jones five —and was II four down at the turn. Jones went out in 33. three under par. Somerville’s medal score for * the first nine was 37. I —o ' » — • i BASEBALL BRIEFS (By United Press) ? The St. Louis Cardinals today ) needed two victories in their re--4 ntaining four games to clinch the 1 National league pennant even if 4 the Chicago Cubs win all their " remaining four games. r Both leaders were idle today. The Cardinals will open their final t series of the season against Pittsr burgh at St. Louis tomorrow and t the Cube will make their last ? stand against Cincinnati at Chle cago. < If the Cubs lose one game, the I Cardinals will have to win only i one more game to clinch the flag. 1.1 If the Cubs should lose two games. j 1 the Cardinals can lose all their remaining games and still win the 3 pennant. The Cardinals increased their ~ lead over the idle Cubs to three games yesterday by pounding out a 19-16 victory over the Phillies, i while Connie Mack of the Athletics , looked on. t The Cards were fortunate in t having their batting eyes on edge las Flint Rhem, Jim Lindsey and s I Bill Hallahan had trouble holding t the Phillies in check. Fred Fitzsimmons scored his | rj 18th victory of the season in pitch- ( ing the Giants to an 8-2 victory over the Robins. Dazzy Vance. 1 who had beaten the Giants in five out of six previous games, was knocked out by them in the fifth 1 inning. 1 The Cincinnati Rede won a double-header from Pittsburgh, 8-0 and 5-2, Jakie May allowing only 3 hits in the first game and Kenneth Ash six in the second game. There were no games played in the American league. o t Yankee Manager Will Be Named On November 1 ( New York. Sept. 24 —(U.R)— The I New York Yankees will announce their manager for the 1931 season on November 1. Ed Barrow. general manager of the club, said today. Barrow refused to discuss re- ’ ports that Col. Jacob Ruppert, owner of the club, was considerin'’ 1 Joe McCarthy, deposed manager of I 1 the Chicago Cubs. ; Bob Shawkey, present Yankees' manager, is working on a oneyear contract which expires at the ' end of the season. ’ | - —o 1 Shepnard Says Sentiment Still For Prohibition f Washington, Sept 24.—(U.R)— Prohibition sentiment is Just as strong in this country today as it ever was and victories of anti- (. nrnhibition'sts in recent primaries f "don't mean a thing," Senator Morris Sheppard. Dem., Texas, co- _ author of the eighteenth amendment. said today. 1 : "This country is permanently dry,” Sheppard said. "There is aliout as much chance to repeal the eighteenth amendment ns there is for .a humming bird to fly to Mars with the Washington monument tied to its tall." —© Indian Fighter Dies Indianapolis, Sept. 24.— 'U.R) — Funeral services wil be held tomorrow for Francis Marion Washburn, 81. who fought Indians under General Custer and Col. W. F. Cody (Buffalo Bill). Both men were Washburn’s leaders during the Sioux Indian rebellion in the Dakotas. Washburn was a calvaryman. Washburn moved to Indianapolis seven years ago from Lafayette. Popular Reading k In 1929, nearly 35,000,000 Bibles J ' were sold 1b the world. Os these I 14,000,000 were sold la the United i States, In comparison with about ■ 200,000 novels.—Country Home. I

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Tiny Horton got a great reception at Central school Monday morning from his fellow teachers — The Central teachers did not know that Horton had been married Saturday night and were thinking only of the Yellow Jackets’ trimming at the hands of South Side. -000— One by one the teachers filed up to Coach Horton and said in words to this effect, "We're all so sorry about the great tragedy which happened over the week-end." Consolations began to heap up, and of course Coach Horton thought all the consolation was concerning his wedding—Then the good news broke and everybody's sneaking to everybody else again. — 000— And Foott-awls might add that if Tiny makes as good a second man around the house as he does head football coach, everything a >ll be fine - oOo — Rev. Joseph Hession, former assistant pastor of St. Marys Catholic church here is getting the athletic itch, and from the trend of a letter Footbawls received from him, we believe he still thinks of Decatur occasionally and the Commodore and Yellow jackets. —oOo- - Rev. Hession sent regards to all his friends In Decatur and gave a short resume of Hammond's fall athletic program which includes what the Calumet region calls Kitten Bal). The game is the same as our Soft Ball—and Father Hess ion says that every square there has its Kitten Ball team. And he added that a rule book has been published on Kitten Ball—which makes no difference to northern Indiana officials — because they just don’t believe in 'em. 000— The Yellow Jackets are working and planning and hoping for the Huntington game next Saturday— It's the last away-from-home game for the Hortonmen for three weeks. I —oOo — Footbawls stilt believes the Jackets are the best they’ve been for five or six years—and these late starters always are good finishers. —oOo — The Jacket line looks better a; each lining and the backfield has taken on a new air of confidence this week —It looks like a couple of rips down the field at Huntington Saturday and a bunch of early touchdowns. Now comes the news that Rog ers Hornsby is to manage the Chicago Cubs — replacing Joe McCarthy. Manager McCarthy, accord ing to information, had tendered his resignation a couple of months ago. and was not surprised to learn through newspapers that he had lost his job. It appears that the Cubs' owners did the only thing possible with Hornsby on the pay-roll—either make him manager or sell him—and the latter was almost impossible because of the money involved and the fact that other teams don't want the Rajah. —oOo— Hornsby will take over the regins of the Cubs immediately, and fans will get an idea of what can be expected of him next season by the way his team acts in the final series of the year with the Reds starting Thursday. The Shamrock-Pirates baseball game next Sunday should bring together thousands of old and new baseball fans. The teams are fairly evently matched, considering the fact that the average age of the Shamrocks is 73 and the average age of the Pirates is about 24. When Old Timers like Bill Schrock, George Massonnee an d| the rest of the gang that used to| cheer the Shamrocks on to winsl a decade ago see those same Shamrocks in action again—they want j to immediately learn the Charleston and other up-to-the-minute kid i games. —oOo — Pat Coffee, Suck Baxter, Hez Cochran were around Monday just as if nothing had happened—so maybe they aren’t so old as they look. —oOo— The Shamrocks will meet Thursday night at Pat Coffee's shoe shop

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at 8 o'clock, as they did back In the Saloon days —oOo — Baseball sane are sharply divided on the action of Cubs' officials — and probably only time will smooths the matter out. —oOo — Over at the suburb, the one big event of the year is taking place. The Bluffton street fair opened i Tuesday afternoon It's not likthelr athletic teams, because it IS GOOD. DECATUR, BEAT HUNTINGTON. O iMovie Actress Issues Statement of Debts Hollywood, Calif.. Sept 24 —(U.R) —Except for a denial that she h'as any honest debts, Clara Bow declined to discuss today-charges that a woman posing as her owed $13.900 to a Nevada gambling resort for losses incurred two weeks ago. Miss Bow had just 38 words of comment, but avoided any statement as .to whether she had been at the Cqjneva resort tables near I Lake Tahoe. Neither did she say whether she was the "Clara Bow” who issued I four checks totalling $13,900 and | then had payment stopped on them al Hollywood banks. The actress' statement, issued' thtough the Paramount studio, de-1 nied that she had any rightful debts and added that she paid all | honest debts promptly. "If anyone in the world feels he; has a rightful claim against me for, any sum of money whatsoever, which I deny. I will gladly accept I service of any legal documents. I always pay every honest debt i promptly." Bandits Relent Valparaiso. Ind., —lliPl —Bandits who slugged, robbed and forced EdPoncher, Valparaiso auto salesman, from his machine April 8. relented recently and mailed Pou | cher his pocketbook. '■

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IL LI 111 SHOWS NO DANCER OF WINNING TITLE r j Zuppke Has Little But Tradition With Which To Form Team By Dixon Stewart UP. Staff Correspondent Chicago, Sept. 1 24 <U.R)~ Bnt f° r I the fact that Coach Bob Zuppke is | especially dangerous when lie Is I the underdog, the University of Illinois would be given little con- ’ sideration in the 1930 Big Ten football campaign. 1 Zuppke likes to work with a new ' squad and particularly with athletes whose ability never lias be n ' praised to th? skies. He lias such a squad th s season, with only one regular player from his 1929 team , back in action, ami Illinois follow | ers are hoping that he will be as I successful in building a new team jas he was the last time he faced a similar situation. In 1927, Zuppke took a green I team ami developed his famous “starless squad" ‘which won two successive B'g Ten titles and took ! second place in 1929. During the ; tin ee-year stretch the Illini lost 'only two conference games. The group of a iU>zen players who 'went through those three seasons I almost intact have been lost by j graduation, three more letter men 'are ineligible and out of a list of 18 men awarded varsity letters in 1929 only three are available for duty. The returning lettermen are Yanuskus, regular halfback; Captain Robinson, who saw considerable substitute service at fullback, and ■ Hill, substitute tackle Eddie Kawj al. 11’29 regular center, was declared ineligible yesterday because he

| violated a Big Ten rule by playing basketball as an amateur tor a |Chicago athletic club after attendIng Wisconsin for six weeks in 1927. Zuppke has few worries over his ,'backfield, lauuskus and Robinson • are counted upon to fill regular 'berths, with "Peewee" Perrine, a 140 pounder from Twin Falls, Idaho i iml Gil Berry, a 175 pounder, from Abingdon. 11l »» their mates. Per | due gives promise of becoming a Ici eat quarterback despite his lack of wight and Berry Is a speedy triple threat man Backfield re- >■■ ves include Useman. a triple--1 threat man from the 1929 reserves, s Etnyie. hurdles star, Schultz. . Eviints. Root. Chattin, and Chuck f Hill’a 1928 letterman. 1.1 Wth Kawal lost. Schumacher, M. D vitt and Garner. 1929 re■erves, are being groomed for the v pivot post. Huddleston. Hills and , ‘Dodman. all ni mbers of 1928 and n 1929 squad, are fighting for the l! tackle berths, with two sopho- ,. mores. Bodman and Jensen, and ) two veteian squad members. Con- < ver and Garner, considered the s leading guard candidates. i End Coach Frank Rokusek is 1 placing his reliance in sophomores with Swanson and Owen favored t for the fi st string assignment. s Two other sophomor- s, Wilson and /Russell, who have been converted ; from backfield men. ate serving as > unde-studies. I The squad appears capable and except for lack of experience 111j Inois lias few tears to shed. How- ; ci er, Illinois has a heavy schedule and if the Illini get better than an r • ven break. Bob Zuppke will be I considered to have worked another i miracle. The schedule: r Oct. 4 lowa State at Illinois. Oct. 11 Butler at Illinois. Oct. 18- Northwestern and Ulin I ois. > Oct. 25 Michigan at Ann Arbor. I Nov. 1 Purdue at Illinois. Nov. 8 Army at New York. Nov. 15 Chicago at Chicago. Nov. 22 Ohio State at Illinois.

FRENCH ALREADY PLANNING NEXT ’ TOURIST'S WEEK I — ' ’ Success of First Effort to Set Tourist Exodus Back • Is Applauded 11 i O I By John White ' United Press Staff Correspondent Paris. Sept 24— (UP)— Convince 1 ' that their "Semaine Americainc ’ was a good Ideal which can be improved upon, the Freni h already are making plans for the 1931 week ’ which will follow the traditional “Grande Semaine" and push the summer exodus back eight days. '[ Criticisms have been generous ‘ and a committee has been appointed to weigh some of the most per1 tinent, For one thing, attention has been called to the fact that no’ ’ 'enough South American flags were | lin evidence this year. The Star | 1 Spangled Bander is no longer a cur i iosity in France, and indeed is dis I' played on the slightest pretext in the capitol But the populace is ttn I amiliar with the colors of Brazil' | and Argentine, to say nothing ot t the smaller republics south of the equator. The committee Is studying I advLsjbility of disposing of this ‘difficulty with one gesture by pur chasing a number of all the requir- , ed flags and reselling them to merchants along the Avenue de i'Opera ' and the Grands Boulevards. Another and even more obvious criticism concerns lack of coordination and preparation, which it fr felt can be remedied easily enough by an early start. As a matter of, I fact the whole idea of a “Semaine I Americaine" popped into the heads ■ of some of the leaders of the Com ! ite France-Amerique just so that the results were far from discouraging under the circumstances. Summing up the remarkable pos- i

l me.., W auu.ni> J la ntk " ‘ S 'he »,,, H J ml- ii, ,s ,r "" '• I'lh.n <'.n ."iM 1.-.,.;.,; w 11 '■' Nun- /VI I Nightclub nJ Holl\W | Sept ■>( night club p.,t,'„ hs ' '■ 11. ■l'.r-.r-'-pl arrested i,> agents in ~ raid on an W flll “ ' '■ wa Ruggles and the booked ~ti |K,--. SS h>n of chiil'ges at,d . 011 each. Coroner Probes Slayß Baltitmu.■ Md s,. pt Coroner ott. I;. . ir ,i, aMfi W today that his disclosed tiiat Dudley (1 S vice-president ~f the Maryland rai't|, a ,j ki;i JV well Byer- io—ident o( the ■ because ot '-on-tam mrS alsiut busim--s matters n Byers was shot to death tV day at th.- Standard Oil byß here. Gray shot himself later in Mercy hospital. ■ 10 Dogs Escape Pou n St. Louis. Mo, Sept. 24—Qj i There is a providence tint h out for the intere-ts of small I ! and their dogs. . er all. Asa catcher's wagon speeded toi the pound today it turned t * the door swung open and (th scampered to freedom